I’m on an Arch-based Linux with VirtualBox (generic installer, couldn’t load modules with host-modules-arch) and I get this error whenever I try to import this OVA file:

Error reading OVA ‘…/coa-aio-newton.ova’ (VERR_TAR_UNEXPECTED_EOS) Result Code: VBOX_E_IPRT_ERROR (0X80BB0005) Component: ApplianceWrap Interface: IAppliance {86a98347-7619-41aa-aece-b21ac5c1a7e6}

Apparently, these OVA files should be unpackable but tar doesn’t recognize it, and neither Ark or PeaZip can unzip this, but importing this OVA file works on Win 10.

I’ve tried using VMWare but that gave me an import error too. Why can’t virtualization work at all on Arch-based systems?

  • PrivateNoob@sopuli.xyzOP
    1·
    1 year ago
    $ file coa-aio-newton.ova
coa-aio-newton.ova: ASCII text
$ tar -tf coa-aio-newton.ova
tar: This does not look like a tar archive
tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors

    Hmm interesting. Nevermind I have unpacked the ova file and exported the vmdk and ovf back to Linux. Thank you for your observation tho!

    • bizdelnick
      2·
      1 year ago

      That file was downloaded wrong. I can guess that you used the broken dropbox link and this file contains a 404 page or you used git clone without git-lfs installed.

      • PrivateNoob@sopuli.xyzOP
        1·
        1 year ago

        Absolutely right, I have only used git clone. Thank you for showing git-lfs, never heard of it before.